Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-25
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Lot of Lost Coupons-The Drainage
Canal-Proposed Street Work,


Canal-Proposed Street Work.
The Board of City Trustees met in regu
lar session at 10 a. NJ. yesterday. Present
Mayor Gregory, and Trustees Jones ant
Ryan. The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved
The report Of f. H. Williams, Chief En-
gineer of the Water Works, showed tina
during the past week the pumps were run
112 hours each, and that 286S2. 900 gallon,
of water had been forced into the city
mains.
J. 3. Warner, of the Hartford Steam
Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
reported having examined and tested tht
boilers OF the city water works. and haC
found them in tirst-class condition.
J. G. Tubbs appeared before the Board or
behalf Of George S. Locke, who had los
some coupons from bonds in his posses
sion, and asked that new bonds be issued in
place Of the old ones. Mr.. Locke Womb
give an indemnity bond to protect the
Trustees should ever any question arise
over the matter; The Board took the mat
ter under consideration for week.
In reference to the bond question sub
mitted to the Board last week, Mayor Greg.
DRY said that he had taken advice upon the
matter and made the following reply:
The three bonds presented are dated
respectively April 9th. April 26th, and
May 9Th, in the year 1854, and were pava.
Bile on the LIST day of July 1874, with in
terest coupons attached providing for semi
annual interest from date of the bonds to
the maturity of the principal These
bonds might have been presented for ex-
change for bonds under the Act of March
y, 1864, when the Trustees, under the sec
ond section of the Act, would have been
called on to determine whether the claims
were legal and just. 1t is now more than
thirteen years since these claims should
have been presented, and when they could
have been considered by the representa-
lves Of the city then living. It is upwards
OF thirteen years since the bonds matured
and they can in no sense be considered as
legal or just demands against the CITY
ANY action on them would be barred by
the statute of limitations"
The Board concurred with Mayor Greg
DRY and unanimously rejected the PROPOSE
ton.
Harbormaster Kidder notified the Board
that hereafter the citys wharf would be
Kept clear for outside craft. The represent
atlves of other transportation companies
agreed not to obstruct the way in the fu-
ture.
Mr.. Hayden, a resident of the eastern
portion of the city, appeared before the
Board and complained of winery and a
brewery that were discharging their sew
age into he Y-street canal. He stated that
the stencil had become very offensive, and
was the cause of much sickness. He had
once brought the matter to the notice OF
the Board OF Health, but that body had
taken no action in the premises. He said
that he could obtain 500 signatures TO a
petition praying for abating the nuisance
The Board advised him to prepare his petit
ton and present it to the Board of Health.
The City Engineer was directed to pre-
pare plans and specifications for the i'm
provement of the following streets: S. T.
u, V, w and X streets from Twenty eighth
to Thirty-tirst; also, Thirtieth street from
? to Y, and rwenty-ninth from S to Y.
A petition from the majority of the pro-
perry owners was received asking the
Board to pass an order to grade and gravel
Fifth street from L to NJ, and also Sixth
street from NJ to n.
The property owners on + and G streets
between Ninth and Eleventh, asked to have
a sewer constructed in the alley, but the
Board declined to pass the necessary order
because the City Engineer said that it was
impossible to secure the necessary fall.
The time for opening bids for the con-
suuctIon of sewers ordered at the last meet
ing was continued until October 31st. The
Board, after allowing a number of bills
adjourned